Debian Bug report logs - #17708
libc6: lchown not supported?

Package: libc6; Maintainer for libc6 is GNU Libc Maintainers <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>; Source for libc6 is src:glibc (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: clameter@debian.org

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 07:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 2.0.6-3

Done: unknown

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>:
Bug#17708; Package libc6. (full text, mbox, link).

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Package: libc6
Version: 2.0.6-3

I am running a recent kernel and AFAIK it supports lchown. 

but chown does not recognize it:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 christop chris           1 Jan 31 22:02 y -> x
cyrix200:/usr/home/chris# chown -h root.root y
chown: --no-dereference (-h) is not supported on this system
cyrix200:/usr/home/chris# 

Is this a libc6 issue or a tool issue?

-- System Information
Debian Release: 1.3
Kernel Version: Linux cyrix200 2.1.84 #54 Fri Jan 30 18:28:43 PST 1998 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages libc6 depends on:
ldso	Version: 1.9.6-2

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Debian Bug report logs - #17708 libc6: lchown not supported?

Debian Bug report logs - #17708
libc6: lchown not supported?